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Name: Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Vocation: Art Lead
Number of years’ experience: 13.5 years
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Twitter: @zette16

Several moons ago I was able to meet Lisette Titre-Montgomery who has worked in an industry which was parallel to the industry I started my career. This event or choice meeting was at GDC(IGDF) Blacks In Gaming event. At the time I never really considered the magnitude that this meeting held, as the idea of being a black person in the gaming arena and creating a game was lost on me even though I had recently created a game which is a tale for another day. Regardless of the fact being black is one thing but being a woman is another and I believe she had her hurdles to cross as those are hurdles regardless of the skills you have. Those are apparent things that many think are not there but sometimes you have to push past that and endure and make it to the end of the road. It’s a stigma that blacks are not capable of certain levels due to the negative cogitation brought about by the media and our fellow man or woman.

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery has contributed to some of the industry’s highest profile games, including Tiger Woods Golf, Dance Central 3, and her most recent project: The Sims 4, set to be released in Fall of 2014. Ms. Titre’s passion is publicly advocating for game-based educational curriculum designed to expose under-served youth to careers in technology. Lisette has been a keynote speaker at N.A.S.A., Intel, and the San Francisco Environmental Protection Agency. She has also been featured on NPR and in the New York Times.

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Every long-running manga generally develops a formula. It is a dreaded, yet sometimes necessary tactic for lengthening a manga. Some mangaka rely too heavily on the formula, and it makes the story stagnant. Others figure out how to keep it exciting, even if the reader knows the general formula. Below are some of the formulas I have noticed in the Big 3, plus a note on DBZ and HxH.

Bleach: Fight a super-strong enemy, and right when things look really bad, get a mega boost and overpower them. Get the enemy against the ropes, only for the enemy to reveal they were hiding their true power all along. Hero gets beaten nearly to death (but you are made to think they are dead). Then another hero (who just got a power boost from secret training) saves the day. Rinse repeat, and nobody but the bad guys die.

Naruto: Present an enemy. That’s not your real enemy, but you won’t know that until you defeat the decoy. Use team effort to defeat the decoy. Sometime between defeating the decoy and defeating the true enemy, everyone else gets overpowered and they put their trust in Naruto. Naruto has beefed up sometime before the final battle, and OP-Naruto saves the day.

One Piece: The Strawhat Crew is going somewhere, but ADD Luffy gets distracted and decides to do a side mission. The crew eventually splits up (Zoro always gets lost, Sanji always gets distracted by a girl). All of the crew fight someone of greater strength and just barely manage to win. They move on to the next place, slightly stronger, and with a bigger bounty on their hands. (They may or may not have picked up a crew member.)

Hunter x Hunter / Dragonball Z: You fight. You get defeated. You train. You get stronger. Some people die. You fight again. You win. (One story is severely more complex than the other though.)

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